As the saying goes, “The best things in life are free.” And an Aston Martin automobile is certainly one of the finer things in life. Now, starting this week, PartyPoker.com players can qualify for their chance to win an Aston Martin DB9 Coupe for absolutely free in the “Drive the Dream” promotion.
Like many online poker [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | April 30, 2010

In its annual effort to improve the legendary poker festival, World Series of Poker officials will be implementing a few changes for 2010. The changes revolve primarily around the Series’ organization, and all look like they will make the overall experience better for the players.
Start and End Times
If you look at the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | April 29, 2010

On Tuesday, Cake Poker posted a sneak peak of Cake Poker 2.0, its new software release, on its website.  The software will not be officially rolled out until later this spring, but it is now in limited use in private beta testing.  
One of the biggest goals of the developers is to make Cake Poker more [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | April 28, 2010

It was a battle of poker heavyweights at the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship this weekend at the Bellagio as the six remaining players fought for the $1,530,537 first prize. In the end, it was Bodog pro David Williams who emerged victorious, claiming his first significant title since winning a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | April 27, 2010

The biggest online poker room in the world just keeps getting bigger. Yet its newest growth spurt does not come from the absorption of other poker rooms or the addition of new players. Rather, PokerStars announced last week that it has purchased three popular poker websites, a step towards becoming not just a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | April 26, 2010

Of all the players at the Party Poker Big Game IV, the two that the other competitors likely didn’t expect to come out on top turned out to be the two biggest winners of the marathon 48-hour cash game.  David “Viffer” Peat and Jennifer Tilly surprised everybody last week, winning £147,275 and £32,975, respectively.
Viffer, in [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | April 23, 2010

It has only been a week since the Cake Poker Network lost two of its major poker rooms to the Merge Gaming Network, but the effects are already being felt at both online poker networks.
On April 15th, both Sportsbook.com and Players Only migrated from a top ten poker network to one that was [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | April 22, 2010

Further reviving its non-North American footprint, the World Poker Tour (WPT) recently announced that it is adding a tour stop in Amneville, France for the 2010-2011 season.  Amneville, just a short drive from both Luxembourg and Germany, is a small, yet popular tourist spot in northeast France which is home to, amongst other things, an [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | April 21, 2010

There is still two months of voting left for the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (TOC), but perhaps as an incentive for fans to mark off their ballots, Harrah’s has released the list of the top 20 current vote getters.  If the voting ended today, this would be the field for the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | April 19, 2010

The most impressive innovation in online poker over the last couple years has arguably been Full Tilt’s fun invention, Rush Poker.  For those who haven’t tried it yet, Rush Poker, in a nutshell, is a poker game in which you are instantly moved to another table the moment you fold.  And as soon as you [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | April 16, 2010